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Lot 879

Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
A Bird Under Pine Tree

1 June 2021, 11:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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Qi Baishi (1864-1957)

A Bird Under Pine Tree
Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
Signed Xingtang laoren houren Baishi, with two seals of the artist
133.6 x 33cm (52½ x 13in)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, Taiwan.
Christie's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, 11 December 1987, lot 143

齊白石 松下覓食圖 設色紙本 立軸

簽條:齊白石松下覓食圖。用乾隆三十四年九裕齋製箋。

款識:
星塘老人後人白石。

鈐印:白石翁、八硯樓
藏印:為龍之印(簽條)

來源:
台灣私人收藏,一九八七年十二月購自紐約佳士得《中國書畫》拍賣,拍品編號143

註:一九一九年,齊白石定居北京,開始衰年變法,自此一改八大之冷逸粗疏,妙造自然,在似與不似之間,終於形成獨特的超凡之趣。
白石筆下,多「少時親手所為,親目所見之物」,故特具田園生趣。是幅〈松下覓食圖〉,畫幅細長,古松貫通天地,一隻竹雞,肉乎乎地,蹲踞於一柱秀挺奇石之上,側首俯身,似欲伺機而動。竹雞作扭捏斜睨狀,青眼向上,絕得八大神韻,細觀其神態,卻頗黠慧,眼喙間似有笑意,全無八大之憂憤。
全幅以淡墨乾筆掃刷,出樹幹、秀石,行筆縱放,筆勢飛動,追步吳昌碩。松枝則濃淡墨兼施,右上一枝直垂而下,粗枝細枒接合處,水份特重,水份與墨份層層暈染,頗具當代效果。全幅僅竹雞淡施赭石,秀石略加藤黃,愈見秀潤雅逸。
白石曾對胡佩衡說:「余畫小雞二十年,十年能得形似,十年能得神似。」觀本幅全似信手拈來,豈知畫雞不易若此。松鷹圖常有,而松雞圖稀見,蓋緣乎此哉!
畫心右下角具「乾隆三十四年(1769)九裕齋」印記,包首簽條亦有「乾隆三十四年九裕齋製箋」字樣。老紙發墨效果特佳,畫心紙面折痕,加劇了留白處墨色乾裂斑駁的效果,自有一番疏簡樸拙的風致。
此作無署年,從筆墨、款屬風格推斷,或應出於上世紀二十年代末至三十年代初。

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